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Finally, influenza is one of many viral illnesses that increases risk of stroke and heart attack. The exact reasons aren’t fully known (although some pieces to the puzzle are), but the inflammation from the influenza infection increases the risk of having an artery in your heart or brain block off. Of course, flu causes headaches, weakness, chest pain, and shortness of breath, so people often wait to come in, and end up in the ICU or dead.